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Yesterday.

Dail Eireann.

During Order of Business, Fianna Fail TD Willie O’Dea (above) raised with Taoiseach Micheál Martin Ireland’s response to the proposed international treaty on pandemic prevention and preparedness by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Once signed, the treaty will enable WHO’s constitution to bypass Bunreacht na hÉireann during a pandemic or other health emergency.

Mr O’Dea said:

“It has generally been accepted that Ireland’s response to the recent pandemic has been one of the most successful. At present, a WHO global pandemic treaty is being negotiated.

My understanding is that the states which become signatories to this treaty will be ceding power to deal with any future pandemics entirely to the WHO and that the local government will be completely excluded from the situation.

“This is a very significant development. Has the advice of the Attorney General been sought as to whether the Government signing up to this will require a constitutional referendum?”

Responding, Micheál Martin replied:

I will have to check that out in the first instance. I remember that Ireland was one of the proactive members in getting a global tobacco treaty under the auspices of the WHO, and we would have been co-authors of that legislation and key players in getting it enacted, which was to the benefit of healthcare.

In terms of a pandemic, what is required is very strong global interaction and co-ordination among all the members of the WHO, which did not quite happen at the beginning in this regard.”

Earlier this month, pressed on the legal requirement for a referendum on this issue, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly told deputies:

“As provided for in the Constitution, the conclusion of an international agreement is an exercise of the executive power of the State in connection with its external relations and is therefore concluded by or on the authority of the Government,.”

So there.

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8 thoughts on “Anti-Treaty

  1. freewheeling

    “As provided for in the Constitution, the conclusion of an international agreement is an exercise of the executive power of the State in connection with its external relations and is therefore concluded by or on the authority of the Government.”

    That’s what they thought for the European Treaty’s too, until’s Crotty challenge in Supreme Court put a stop to the government rubber stamping those without a referendum. Might want to look that up, Stephen.

  2. eamonn

    “In terms of a pandemic, what is required is very strong global interaction and co-ordination among all the members of the WHO, which did not quite happen at the beginning in this regard.”

    Why would a government not want to keep it’s own house in order – plot its own course through the choppy waters of the next pandemic.

    Why would a government want to surrender its authority – authority it has only borrowed in reality from the electorate. – truth is, it isn’t theirs to give. How does one issue a reminder ?

    If a government chooses to abdicate – let them vacate their positions.

    I wouldn’t be a massive fan of supra governmental entities – outside democratic checks and balances – what could go wrong.

  3. anolderman

    Now start to ask why your ministers need armed police. We have the peace dividend. I forecast they are going to sell us out. They have no answers or ability themselves but will outsource governance of Ireland for a fee. History repeats. Bit like that git Dermot MacMurrough & Strongbow which inter alia ended up increasing the de facto ability of the Holy See to regulate Christianity in Ireland. How did that work out for us?

    1. eamonn

      if i start with the question – why do ministers feel they might be needing armed guards ?
      personally, I don’t believe they need or more importantly deserve armed protection, from whom? – if they feel they have enemies, chances are they made enemies for themselves -why would the citizenry want to be bailing them out?
      is it one of those – only the guilty feel shame scenarios….

  4. K. Cavan

    In combination with the upcoming Referendum to remove Rights to Private Property from the Constitution, this is the mask being removed & the gloves coming off in the Globalist Coup that was started when Bill Gates & Big Pharma created the Fake Pandemic.
    I’m at a loss as to how the government intend to try to fool the Normies into voting themselves out of ownership of their own houses but I’m eager to find out.
    Meanwhile, an administrative offshoot of the UN, who have never managed an outbreak of any disease, never mind a Pandemic, real or imagined, indeed who have never even treated a single patient, anywhere, ever, are to be given unprecedented powers, including the right to shut down business, imprison citizens & mandate treatment, as we’ve just seen done by our own government, on the basis of their own declaration of “A Pandemic”, perhaps even a “Climate Change Pandemic”?
    The Globalists are finally making their move & we are powerless to stop them, because our political class no longer believe in any concept of loyalty or service to their own citizens. Martin’s Dail declaration of distaste for Sovereignty leads directly here, where the State hands control of itself & it’s citizens to a corrupt bureaucratic monster, currently steered by a Marxist who’s party is a banned terrorist organisation, according to the Ethiopian government. The WHO currently spends a fifth of a billion dollars per anum on travel expenses for its executives, more than it does on Mental Health, HIV/AIDS, TB & Malaria, combined & receives one-sixth of it’s funding from Bill Gates, alone & half from various NGOs, Corporations & Philanthropic Foundations.
    Yes, indeed, what could possibly go wrong?

  5. f_lawless

    It’s absolutely enraging. Our ever-diminishing sovereignty is set to be signed away to an unelected, corrupted institute and we’re getting the likes of Willie O’Dea, supposedly in the corner of Irish citizens, starting off with “It has generally been accepted that Ireland’s response to the recent pandemic has been one of the most successful”. Our response has been a disaster – we went down the road of taking direction from centralised health authorities such as the WHO, the EMA, etc, which have evidently been subverted by corporate/globalist elite interests.

    The WHO advocated for much if not all of the politicised, pseudo-scientific measures that Ireland subsequently adopted: lockdowns, masks, (anti)social distancing, banning of certain early treatment medicines, digital ‘health passes’, the roll out of dubious ‘vaccines’, the unethical use of behavioural science methods to manipulate public perception, etc, etc. There was no cost-effective analyses commissioned by the Irish government before any of the measures were imposed nor periodic reviews carried out of what their impact was. The Science™ had already decreed these were valid measures and so that was good enough for us, seemingly. Why would we want to give the WHO, in its current degenerate state, the legal power to impose sanctions if we don’t follow their mandates?

    And then to top it off, when Martin is asked whether the advice of the Attorney General has been sought, he actually pretends to be unaware whether or not it has: “I will have to check that out in the first instance”. Woeful political theatre.

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